Allan Ashbolt
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Allan Ashbolt
(1921-2005), born Melbourne, has had a wide-ranging career in radio, television and political journalism. He came into prominence in 1946 as co-founder, with the actor Peter Finch, of the Mercury Theatre, Sydney. From 1951 to 1957 he was drama critic and book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In his career with the ABC (1954-77) he was a talks and documentary producer, foreign correspondent and head of special projects. His publications include An American Experience (1966), an unsparingly critical assessment of such features of American life and government as the segregation of society by race, religion and money, the public scandals, organised crime, imbalance of the American economy, and American foreign policy; and An Australian Experience: Words from the Vietnam Years (1974), which is an extended commentary on war and racism, nationalism and imperialism, conscription and conscience, socialism and class consciousness, all in an Australian context.
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Allan Ashbolt
Allan Campbell Ashbolt (24 November 1921 – 9 June 2005) was an Australian journalist and television broadcaster.
He was born in Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School, and served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War II.[1] Following the war, Ashbolt began acting and helped establish the Mercury Theatre with Peter Finch before he was hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a producer.
In 1959 he was appointed as the ABC's first North America correspondent, and during 1963 he served as a correspondent and executive producer of Four Corners, which has become Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. He was known for his belief that the ABC should promote free speech and controversial political content.
Ashbolt held senior positions at the ABC until retiring after a 25 year career with the network, and also wrote for the New Statesman, a British political magazine. He died in Sydney in 2005.
References
- ABC News (2005). Journalist Alan Ashbolt dies at 83. Retrieved April 10, 2008.
- Bowman, David (15 May 2005). "'The lion of the ABC'". Australian Policy Online. http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=12062.
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